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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by exacube on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:00PM (#23162188)
You might be misinformed; according to https://medium.com/flutter/hummingbird-building-flutter-for-... Flutter for Web uses HTML & CSS where it can, and falls back to Canvas where it can't.

Flutter for Web is still on Beta, so lets see where it lands. Today, it seems to implement some PWA practices and lazyloading to try and get some performance.

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by gitgud on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:35PM (#23162446)
Well that article is from 2018 and kind of overemphasises the HTML and CSS where it can.

Checkout the official [1] Flutter web demos. Even the simplest [2] example renders basically every part of the UI (including text!!) within canvas elements, which is a bit crazy to me... but yes it's still Beta, so we'll see what they can improve

[1] https://flutter.github.io/samples/#?platform=web

[2] https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/animations/#/

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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by Klathmon on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:48PM (#23162921)
Wow that's pretty insane. I can't select any text on any of those examples, I can't open anything in a new tab, and I can't save any images.
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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by wiradikusuma on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:01PM (#23162985)
For some web app, that's a feature
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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by akie on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:37AM (#23165808)
I got a big grey screen on the first three I clicked. Not sure if this is ready for prime time...
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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by Yabood on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:52AM (#23163879)
I wonder how SEO is handled for web applications built with Flutter since its mostly canvas.
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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by dmitriid on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:43AM (#23165163)
They also create a thousand webcomponent wrappers to display this.
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